Maja Horvat communicates the higher power of music through her performances, offering joy and comfort which enable her audience members to develop their own unique and meaningful connection with the Arts. She explores the full range of magic and versatility of which the violin is capable through her work as a soloist, chamber musician and in collaboration with ensembles, orchestras and composers all over the world. While constantly exploring masterpieces of all eras, Maja’s true passion is giving contemporary works a good start in life and finding fresh resonance in lesser-known gems of 20th-century repertoire.

She has performed with some of the world’s most prominent chamber musicians including Sir Andras Schiff, Steven Isserlis, Tabea Zimmerman, Christian Tetzlaff and David Cohen.

In 2024 Maja joined the award winning Astatine Piano trio. Since their journey together they have been named BBC3 New Generation Artists 2025-2027, won several prizes including some at Schubert and Modern Music International Competition in Graz, Austria and have been selected as Kirckman Society Artists for 2025/26.

The most recent addition to Maja’s chamber music career is becoming a member of the internationally acclaimed Heath Quartet. They regularly perform in the UK, Europe and the USA. The Quartet hold a residency at Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Saal. In 2025 they became String Quartet in Residence at Middlesex University.

​In 2019 Maja was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Emily Anderson Prize for an outstanding violinist. She is a Tillett Debut Scheme Artist. She has performed as a soloist with orchestras including the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra, the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra Mladi Solisti and the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra. She has appeared at festivals including the Tartini Festival, Stift International Music Festival, ChamberJam Düsseldorf and Festival Ljubljana. Among other accolades, Maja has won the Temsig Slovenian National Competition, was awarded the Special Szymanowski Prize at the inaugural Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition and was the special prize and third prize winner at the 2024 Wajnberg International Violin Competition. Maja is also an active orchestral member. She has performed as concertmaster of the Royal College of Music’s Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestra, Fidelio Symphony Orchestra and the Echo Ensemble. She also regularly performs with Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

​It was around the age of three that Maja felt sure that she wanted to dedicate her life to playing the violin. She finally began learning aged seven. Her first teacher was Bojan Ristić at the Music School Jesenice in Slovenia, where she later studied with Blanka Piotrovska. While still in Jesenice, Maja performed as a soloist in venues across Slovenia as well as in Austria, Germany, Croatia, Italy and the Czech Republic. In 2015 she graduated the Conservatory for Music and Ballet Ljubljana, where she learned with Volodja Balžalorsky. As a Victor and Lillian Hochhauser Scholar at the RCM in London, Maja studied with Daniel Rowland and Leonid Kerbel while participating in masterclasses with internationally-acclaimed performers such as Maxim Vengerov, Nicola Benedetti, Ivry Gitlis, Saewon Suh, Anton Martynov, Vasilij Meljnikov, Igor Ozim and Wonji Kim Ozim. In June 2022 she finished her Artist Diploma studies at the RCM under the tutelage of Alina Ibragimova.